Description: This topically organized, interdisciplinary anthology provides competing perspective on the claim that western culture faces a moral crisis. Using clearly written, accessible essays by well-known authors in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities, the book introduc...
Brief description: Christina Hoff Sommers is the author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys and is the editor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country. She is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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"While the readings in Moral Soundings raise specific issues about capitalism, family life, biotechnology, religion, and global conflict, the editor's introductions and 'interventions' relate the readings to different conceptions of autonomy and different evaluations of those conceptions. This unity-in-diversity format should work very well in the classroom." --James P. Sterba, Philosophy Department, University of Notre Dame
"Framed to probe the issue of what lies beneath the troubled waters of Western life, Dwight Furrow's Moral Soundings bridges the gap between academic philosophy and the world of public intellectuals. Badly needed; it is a gift." --George Harris, chancellor professor of philosophy, College of William and Mary